Dress code at work... do you have one?

[NuclearNed]

Its always been business casual here, with jeans on Friday.

Well, we've been having some fairly severe problems in our factory's production area lately. Management blames this on an overall lack of formality and discipline in our facility's culture.

Their solution: nothing fixes deep-rooted problems like implementing a dress code. Soon all men will be strongly encouraged, but not required, to wear a tie. Jeans Friday is now history.

Their story is the worn-out mantra that you hear old-school screwheads chant repeatedly: "when you wear a tie, you act differently and treat others differently"

Could it be that our upper management is bankrupt when it comes to finding and fixing root causes of problems?

 

[snoopdoug1]

Wow, that sounds like not fun. Dress code for me is jeans and polos(everyday). FYI, I'm a flight simulation engineer.

 

[toekramp]

we just aren't allowed to wear sandals or shorts...

it's very lax

(software engineer for a government contractor)

 

[ItsPat]

Not sure what Management is thinking, changing the dress code is likely just to make the culture weaker and less likely to work harder. They should offer some incentives to get production up instead.

 

[Glavinsolo]

Aren't you a software engineer of some flavor? We have a dress code of shirt and pants tucked in with a belt and nice shoes, end of story jeans are fine any day. I believe in our similar fields being comfortable allows us to be more creative. Taking away freedoms from employees brings down employee happiness. I hope everything works out for you.

 

[TraumaRN]

Ahhh this is why I love working in a hospital. Scrubs for all! Only requirements that I know of is no apparent labels. Pharmacy wears dark blue, respiratory is black and enviromental/housekeeping is burgundy red.

Nurses and techs can wear any color they want except all white.

 

[tfinch2]

Business casual everyday. A few months before I started it was suits everyday. I'm glad they dropped that sh!t.

 

[NuclearNed]

Originally posted by: Glavinsolo
Aren't you a software engineer of some flavor? We have a dress code of shirt and pants tucked in with a belt and nice shoes, end of story jeans are fine any day. I believe in our similar fields being comfortable allows us to be more creative. Taking away freedoms from employees brings down employee happiness. I hope everything works out for you.

I was a software engineer until a few weeks ago. Now I'm a business systems analyst (i.e. software configuration manager).

I'm totally on the same page with you; more comfortable = more creative & higher productivity

 

[FallenHero]

Full Uniform.

 

[snoopdoug1]

Originally posted by: FallenHero
Full Uniform.

job match the avatar?

 

[Mayfriday0529]

nothing, people come in with sandals

 

[iotone]

business casual at my previous job, with casual friday. new job is all casual.

 

[Martin]

That's weak. Technically its "business casual" or something along those lines here, but practically there is nothing. Pants and golf/polo shirt is about as fancy as poeple get.

 

[Captante]

Business-casual at my job as well and I agree that its much better that way... its silly to think wearing a tie makes you more productive.

 

[Jikininki]

yea..we have one. but it's not enforced in our particular branch cause we have an awesome boss.

When people from corporate or overseas visitors come we have to dress up business casual to keep up appearances. But normally everyone comes in in jeans and sneakers.

 

[GrammatonJP]

no dress code here... half the people are in shorts already.

 

[edro]

Yes, Business Casual. Dress slacks with shinable shows. No khakis or polo shirts, except on Friday.

 

[CollectiveUnconscious]

I love working at a university. I wear whatever I feel like wearing, within reason.

 

[Linflas]

Polo shirts, khakis, and black sneakers for me.

 

[Engineer]

For corporate offices, yes. My plant (tooling/machine plant): not much.

Steel toe shoes and safety glasses.

Jeans, Tees and ball cap 99.9999% of the time for me!

 

[Trey22]

My company is backwards... I recently moved from tech support to applications and even though we have no official dress code, if you wear a suit, they frown upon it.

Anything goes for everyday wear... in the summer it's shorts, sandals and a t-shirt (tank tops are okay too).

 

[Baked]

Hoody, Levi's, Vans.

 

[NutBucket]

business casual, with casual friday. Although, I wear jeans almost everyday.

 

[trmiv]

I wear jeans, and whatever shirt strikes me that day. Nothing formal, but usually not a t-shirt, although I could if I wanted.

Sounds like your upper management is reaching, and really doesn't know what the problem is. When that doesn't work, what will they do next?

 

[Looney]

That would suck. My last job was business casuals, with jeans on friday as well (and every now and then, some theme day). When i came to this job, i was the only one wearing business casuals. Everybody else were wearing shorts or PJs (mostly the girls). It's insane.